Christopher John “Kit” Hesketh-Harvey was a British musical performer, translator, composer, and screenwriter who was born on 30 April 1957 and died on 1 February 2023.
Hesketh-Harvey worked as a staff producer for the BBC-TV Music and Arts Department for six years before leaving to write the script for Merchant Ivory’s Maurice (1987). He won the Vivian Ellis Award for musical theatre writers in 1988 and went on to study with Stephen Sondheim, who was appointed to the Cameron Mackintosh visiting professorship in Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
He worked on the BBC’s Vicar of Dibley series. Full Throttle, starring Rowan Atkinson, and Hans Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale were both written by him (Hallmark). The screenplay for Tim Walker’s film The Lost Explorer was co-written by him. (Another collaboration with Walker, The Granny Alphabet, which features his verses set to Walker’s photographs, was published by Thames and Hudson in 2013). For The Shooting, his first detective novel was released in October 2017.
Kit Hesketh-Harvey Cause Of Death
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, a musician, composer, and screenwriter, died unexpectedly at the age of 65. However, the general public is unaware of Kit’s cause of death.